"This is the first time I saw a Terran with a cold and fever. I didn't expect it to be my own brother."
After Ian finished taking the medicine, he reached out his hand and pressed it on Ellan's forehead.
The blue-gold essence flows, and there is a silver halo flowing in the young man's eyes: "Although it is not serious, Elan has always been healthy. What is going on?"
When he returned home, Ian immediately noticed something was wrong with Ellan. He immediately used his precognitive vision and silver chip to conduct a double scan and learned that the other party had a fever.
Taking medicine, cooking medicine, and simply refining and purifying the medicine. Ian did all his actions in one go, which can be said to demonstrate the excellent basic skills of an alchemist.
After Elan drank the purified antipyretic decoction, which was almost half an alchemical potion, his fever was indeed suppressed. At least he didn't look so uncomfortable anymore.
"Brother?" In the middle of the process, Ellan woke up once in a daze and wanted to get up to say hello, but was quickly pushed back by Ian and continued to lie on the bed.
"Have a good rest and don't move around."
After completing these emergency measures, Ian began to conduct an in-depth inspection.
Using a three-pronged approach of source matter, psychic energy and chips, he soon found the problem.
The results were mixed for him.
"Aberration...or is it that part of the bloodline has returned to its ancestors..."
Ian's parents have produced sublimated people and deformed people. Generally speaking, at least their genetic talents cannot be said to be ordinary.
Uncle Oceana's "abnormal bones" are the abnormal changes of the sublimated organ's "steel bones". Because there are not enough nutrients, they cannot develop successfully. In addition, the original source material structure is not comprehensive, so they develop incorrectly.
Theoretically speaking, for a race with perfect genes like the Terrans, there would be no distortion even if brothers and sisters were united for hundreds of years. Even in a radiation environment, Ian was quite skeptical about the possibility of mutation.
Judging from his current experience, if the Terran people add a little bit of reinforcement, the physical body of space may not be a problem, and there may not be distortion after decades of cosmic ray erosion.
Therefore, the radiation genetic disease he had speculated earlier was actually not possible in the Terran people.
So the question is, what exactly is the distortion?
Combining some bio-alchemy classics and some experiences from previous lives, Ian boldly speculated that the aberrations may be the result of indiscriminate intermarriage between the "Ascendants of the Ancestors" in the Lost Era in the early days of modern Terran civilization.
At that time, there were not so many taboos among the Ascendants, and no one knew about aberrations. Many Ascendants with different bloodlines married each other, resulting in the birth of a large number of Chimera-like aberrations.
These early aberrations, lycanthropes, and even countless monsters and aliens in legends, some were even extremely powerful, and even became the earliest inspiration for the true path at that time.
But most of them are twisted and weak beings, but there is a pair of parents with strong power who can protect them from being eliminated by nature.
These mutated bloodlines were passed down and interbred with each other, contaminating the entire early human gene pool.
As we all know - at least to the Ascended Ones - the origins of the various countries were the major refuges after the Skyfall disaster. The number of humans at that time was very few, and once they were mixed with the abnormal bloodline, almost everyone would be affected by it in a few generations.
Today, human genes are no longer flawless, but have many scattered bloodline gene fragments mixed in them... This is a genetic disaster that is enough to prevent humans from reaching the higher levels of the road to sublimation.
Therefore, today, both nobles and commoners consider intermarriage between different bloodlines to be a great taboo. Relevant rules are strictly followed for childbirth between nobles, and the birth of offspring without bloodline characteristics is even discouraged.
Because in that case, if the descendants of nobles with half of the unmanifested bloodline characteristics continue to intermarry with other commoners, it may cause the recessive genetic factors to manifest incorrectly, leading to secondary distortions in the second generation or even multiple generations.
Distortion like that of Orsenna is a typical multi-generational secondary distortion.
For these reasons, nobles who do not abide by the bloodline code will be regarded as barbarians and punished or even expelled.
And aberrants are absolutely not allowed to get married and have children, to avoid further contaminating the human gene pool that is already on the verge of collapse.
However, in the final analysis, the so-called aberration is essentially a fragment of a sublimated bloodline, but it has not developed successfully due to various reasons - it is not a complete curse, but an incomplete and false blessing.
"Osenna's cheap uncle's deformed bones were not fully developed due to insufficient nutrition when he was young. The steel bones were only limited to the legs and suppressed the growth of normal legs, which resulted in that weird carapace.
Tumor morphology.”
Ian stretched out his hand and pressed it on Ellan's left shoulder. His eyes were deep: "The left shoulder is also a steel bone. It seems that among our ancestors of the White People, there must be a very strong ancestor who has a bloodline inheritance related to the steel bone.
Our generation continues to have atavisms one after another.”
The continent of Terra is essentially no different from the earth. Over the past 1800 years, whose ancestors have not been the survivors of the previous era, the ones who were lucky and strong in body and mind?
This is also the reason why almost all ethnic groups in Terra have aberrations.
Because our ancestors are all descendants of a group of first ascendants and those who married with them.
"Fortunately, Elan is usually well-nourished, at least he won't be like Oceana, who was unable to fully develop due to lack of nutrition and cause deformation... The most dangerous stage has passed, and I only need to pay more attention later to prevent the deformation from continuing.
"
Taking a long breath, Ian now felt the importance of eating well, drinking well and sleeping well - a sound and regular diet and sleep can suppress even distortion!
Elan's fever, in essence, is a slow release of cellular energy caused by self-transformation... Because of Ian's source of soothing, the boy has calmed down, and it is estimated that the fever will completely subside by tomorrow morning.
"Eight years old is indeed a period of rapid growth - this should be the cause of the deformation of most people in the past."
After standing up, Ian went to boil a pot of water and put it next to Elan for later use. He brought a chair and blanket over and prepared to sit next to his brother to rest.
The young man was not nervous. On the contrary, he was even curious: "The other peak period of distortion is adolescence. I can still suppress the distortion in childhood, but the brain development in adolescence is extremely intense. If I suppress it forcefully,
I’m afraid it will have a great impact on Elan’s intelligence.”
"It seems that either Elan, like me, can cultivate a heritage related to 'Steel Bone' and 'Crystal Bone' before he turns fourteen, or he must obtain an alchemical potion that can normally suppress distortion."
"In this process, even if it is to treat Elam, more research must be done on related topics."
When Ian went home today, he originally wanted to make a preliminary plan to add a new sublimation organ to the true form of the Wavesinger. He also thought about how much research funds and Warcraft materials he would get from Elder Puder tomorrow.
Now, he doesn't feel that taking care of Elan is a waste of time.
Not to mention that the other person was his younger brother, the fact that he was aberrant also gave him some inspiration.
"The conversion between bloodline and true form will definitely lead to redundancy of organs, which will cause distortion... On the contrary, is it possible that controllable directional distortion can also be a method to increase the number of sublimated organs?
"
After all, according to Ian's knowledge, many unique sublimation organs in the later stages of powerful sublimation inheritance require upgrading the essence of life - and whether it is the use of high-energy radiation to induce birth, or complete lucid state and proliferation, it seems that it can be done
Considered as a controllable and powerful distortion feature?
"What's more, will there be some distortion on my body?"
"Sublimation must be carried out and distortion must be studied. This is healthy."
With this in mind, Ian sat on the chair, and after confirming that Ellan was sleeping deeply, he slowly fell asleep.
The next morning.
"Brother, I'm sorry, I seemed to have slept on the table yesterday..."
Ian, who had woken up early and was frying eggs and fish, heard a thumping sound behind him, and then felt his younger brother's energetic charge hitting his hind legs - Elan didn't seem to realize that he was fainting from a high fever.
In the past, I thought I was just sleepy and fell asleep.
The young man suppressed his laughter, and then scared Elland and said: "This is the result of not eating well and exercising at ordinary times, and suddenly feeling sleepy while studying at night!"
"Today you will be punished by eating an extra egg, and you will also have to eat the fish bones!"
"Mmm Good……"
Turning his head, Ian stretched out his hand to rub the embarrassed and pitiful face of Elan, and then patted the other person's head: "Go to exercise and then wash up. I will come back to cook for you at noon, if you are sleepy
Just go to bed and get more rest recently."
"Okay~"
Ellan obediently went to wash up and exercise. After the two brothers finished eating, Ellan continued to study and play by himself, while Ian went out and went to the elders' hall to find Elder Puder.
This time, he had to order some World of Warcraft materials, tell the other party about the hostility he saw in Patrick and related speculations, and ask a question about the ancestors of the White People.
In other words, he wanted to know.
When they were still in the imperial capital, what kind of inheritance did they, the people of Zhibai, practice?